It has been (so far) a volcanically quiet weekend. Some updates: Following an increase in shallow volcanic earthquakes and more intense degassing, including possibly venting of some ash, SERNAGEOMIN has raised the alert level of Copahue volcano in Chile/ Argentina back to Orange.

Plosky Tolbachik volcano in Kamchatka continues to erupt lava flows from the southern fissure. The eruption has stabilized and shows no signs of ending soon at the moment.

Thermal anomalies and an ash plume observed at 12,000 ft (3.7 km) on Friday and Saturday show that the lava dome of Paluweh north off Flores, Indonesia, remains active, and probably continues to produce pyroclastic flows.

The rate of emissions at Popocatépetl volcano in Mexico remains low, but an impressive SO2 plume visible today as well as continuing crater glow confirm that fresh magma is steadily rising within the volcano.

Activity of the Guatemalan volcanoes Fuego and Santiaguito has not changed significantly. Both continue to slowly extrude viscous lava flows and Fuego has occasional small strombolian explosions. A small rockfall could be seen descending the slopes of the Santiaguito dome on the latest webcam image from 5 Jan morning. Pacaya volcano remains at unrest, with numerous small volcanic earthquakes, but has not had any other surface activity. This could change quickly, though.

Volcanic earthquakes and bursts of elevated tremor appeared on seismograms at San Miguel volcano in El Salvador.

Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador has calmed down a lot recently, both in seismicity and surface activity. The main hazard are lahars (mud flows) triggered by heavy rainfalls. Nearby Reventador volcano in turn seems to be becoming more active judging from seismic activity.

Kilauea volcano on Hawai'i still has a weakly active lava flow on the coastal plain and lava is entering the ocean at multiple locations.

Another small seismic swarm occurred at Mammoth Mountain in California west of the Long Valley caldera, between 4-5 January with quakes at depth of 12-15 km. [link to www.volcanodiscovery.com]

Re: The monsters wakes up ! Katla Hekla Iceland Dead Zone and rift as uniform system ! A lot of others worldwide !

HawaiiUnfortunately, current status not available now: [link to hvo.wr.usgs.gov] "Sorry, no connection to database ... "

but today events there deserve to be mentioned, so [link to volcans.blogs-de-voyage.fr] An M 4.4 earthquake shook Big Island today at 14 :37 (UTC). The epicentre was located in the Royal gardens subdivision at a depth of 9.1 km. The event occurs at a time when Kilauea is going through a long deflation episode with the level of lava within Halema’uma’u at its lowest. Lava breakouts can be seen on the coastal flat with weak ocean entries. One can wonder whether Kilauea is not about to change its behaviour...The latest earthquake has incited HVO to issue a warning about the instability of the delta where lava arrives in the ocean. A slight earthquake may cause it to collapse together with the reckless people who would be standing on it. The short video clip here below (November 2005) confirms that the warning should be taken seriously!

Just after midnight on January 3, 1983, a small fissure opened within Napau Crater on Kilauea Volcano, spewing red-hot lava. Within hours, additional fissures stretched 6 kilometers (4 miles) down the volcano’s East Rift Zone. Thirty years later, the Pu’u ’O’o-Kupaianaha eruption continues, making it the longest eruption at Kilauea in recorded history.

Since the eruption began in 1983, lava has poured almost continuously from a cluster of vents on the eastern flank. Through 2011, fresh lava had covered 124.6 square kilometers (48.1 square miles) of the Big Island of Hawai’i. Activity has occurred during 60 distinct events, separated by shifts in the location or behavior of erupting lava. Most of these events have been centered at Pu’u ’O’o, a volcanic cone built from successive lava fountains and flows. The 60th eruptive episode began in March 2011 and was ongoing through January 4, 2012. It consists of a lava pond within Pu’u ’O’o, and a steady effusion of lava that stretches 10 kilometers (6 miles) to the Pacific Ocean.

These images—a [links above] natural-color satellite image from June 6, 2011, and a black-and-white aerial photograph from March 25, 1977—show the landscape surrounding Napau Crater and Pu’u ’O’o. Lavas of different ages cover the surface. Lava flows that are more than a century old are covered by a dense forest (green in the 2011 image) of ohia lehua and tree ferns. Flows from eruptions in 1965, 1968, and 1969 are much lighter than the forest in the 1977 image, but difficult to differentiate from one another...

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31557404

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31557404

Interesting [link to hvo.wr.usgs.gov] inflation seems like caused by some kind of strong "pump" effect after yesterday big EQ in Britich Columbia

In Gígjukvísl water height went up rather suddenly from 20 to 89 cm, in Skaftá within 1 day from 185 to 230 and in Djúpá within the same time frame from 160 to 286 cm. Conductivity in Gígjukvísl went from 340 to 460.

This is nothing unusual though, just water melting from the continuously “working” geothermal systems under Vatnajökull. Heightened water conductivity is also conntected to that. [link to volcanocafe.wordpress.com]

In G&#237;gjukv&#237;sl water height went up rather suddenly from 20 to 89 cm, in Skaft&#225; within 1 day from 185 to 230 and in Dj&#250;p&#225; within the same time frame from 160 to 286 cm. Conductivity in G&#237;gjukv&#237;sl went from 340 to 460.

This is nothing unusual though, just water melting from the continuously “working” geothermal systems under Vatnaj&#246;kull. Heightened water conductivity is also conntected to that. [link to volcanocafe.wordpress.com]

Quoting: Luisport

Really nothing unusual that ice and snow are melting. Especially if simply look at weather chart with temperatures around Vatnajokull +6 / + 7 degrees of C [link to en.vedur.is]

From the Black Sea at 61 kilometers from the Georgian port of Poti on Friday raised portion of fiber-optic backbone cable Poti-Novorossiysk and Sochi (included in submarine cable system "Georgia-Russia"), which was damaged on 23 December in a volcanic eruption, said to " Interfax" executive director Foptnet Kote Samushia.

"The rise of the damaged cable at a depth of 1300 meters the crew carried a special ship that was called from the Italian port of Catania and began to work on January 3," - said K.Samushiya.

According to him, on a raised cable is clearly marked with signs of fire, which destroyed the polyethylene and damage the protective shield. "Experts believe that it is caused by an underwater volcanic eruption, recorded on December 23 in 18 hours 51 minutes, after about half an hour after the incident on the day of the earthquake in the Black Sea," - said K.Samushiya...

Re: The monsters wakes up ! Katla Hekla Iceland Dead Zone and rift as uniform system ! A lot of others worldwide !

HawaiiInteresting [link to hvo.wr.usgs.gov] inflation seems like caused by some kind of strong "pump" effect after yesterday big EQ in Britich Columbia

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31604524

Confirmed

[link to hvo.wr.usgs.gov] ...Recent Observations at Kilauea summit: The summit tiltmeter network recorded the start of DI inflation at about noon yesterday. The lava lake level fluctuated in the morning and rose dramatically through the afternoon and overnight mimicking tilt and remaining below what's left of the inner ledge...... Recent Observations at the middle east rift zone vents: Lava activity on the coastal plain continued to be weak but may strengthen over the next few days in response to the DI inflation that started yesterday. An approximately 1 km-wide (0.6 mi wide) lava flow remained active on the coastal plain with minor scattered surface activity near the coast straddling the easternmost boundary of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. Webcams recorded at least one very weak ocean entry plume this morning...

Re: The monsters wakes up ! Katla Hekla Iceland Dead Zone and rift as uniform system ! A lot of others worldwide !

HawaiiInteresting [link to hvo.wr.usgs.gov] inflation seems like caused by some kind of strong "pump" effect after yesterday big EQ in Britich Columbia

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31604524

Confirmed

[link to hvo.wr.usgs.gov] ...Recent Observations at Kilauea summit: The summit tiltmeter network recorded the start of DI inflation at about noon yesterday. The lava lake level fluctuated in the morning and rose dramatically through the afternoon and overnight mimicking tilt and remaining below what's left of the inner ledge...... Recent Observations at the middle east rift zone vents: Lava activity on the coastal plain continued to be weak but may strengthen over the next few days in response to the DI inflation that started yesterday. An approximately 1 km-wide (0.6 mi wide) lava flow remained active on the coastal plain with minor scattered surface activity near the coast straddling the easternmost boundary of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. Webcams recorded at least one very weak ocean entry plume this morning...

Re: The monsters wakes up ! Katla Hekla Iceland Dead Zone and rift as uniform system ! A lot of others worldwide !

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ignore that bullshit. honestly, all they are trying to do there is blame US, humans, for what the planet, the solar system, does NATURALLY.

it is a nefarious agenda.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31240561

And where did you see what I am saying that warming and climate change necessary due to technogenic (human) influence ? Never is not alleged here!

In this thread is discussing a lot times quite other:it's (warming) last years confirmed reality,and it leads to a number of harmful effects, which are discussed here. What warming is caused - is quite a separate issue.

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As usual (it continues each day over year in all seasons) huge positive temperature anomalies in the Canadian Arctic coast: Sachs Harbour above normal by about 30 degrees [link to 193.7.160.230]

south of Greenland also with big positive anomaly

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31557404

New chart: great positive anomalies in Mould Bay (Canadian Arctic coast) - over 24 degrees C and again Sachs Harbour and south-west of Greenland [link to 193.7.160.230]

and interesting reference abou Grimsey [link to en.wikipedia.org] Gr&#237;msey is a small island in the country of Iceland, 40 kilometres (25 mi) off the north coast of the main island of Iceland and straddling the Arctic Circle, which shifts northward by about 14.5 metres per year.In January 2011 Gr&#237;msey had 86 inhabitants.[3]

notice the BOTTOM PEAKS of the red line is just over 20 at the start, and is now up over the 60-75 mark, pushing towards the 100 mark?

the other two frequencies have increased too. This is definitely ramping up, slowly, very slowly. whether that's a good thing, or a bad thing, we'll see.

i know the charts all look the same, but look at the increase in the nm/s figure on the left of the chart

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31507911

thanks, great post

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31614124

np

don't forget, open a katla file on your pc, and save any charts that interest you in there, with dates. you pick up on things long before anyone else that way.

i'm watching this like a hawk, as you can probably guess.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31507911

yeh, me too,as can (understandably given our situation here like). wish i could study it more etc as you say, but access to computers/time is very limited hence greatly appreciate yours and everyones posts, info and/or thoughts/senserespect and regards

Re: The monsters wakes up ! Katla Hekla Iceland Dead Zone and rift as uniform system ! A lot of others worldwide !

Monday 7th January 2013 Seulawah Agam Volcano, Indonesia Seulawah Agam volcano, Sumatra, Indonesia was raised to level 3 alert on 3rd January 2013, after an increase in seismic activity. A new solfatara was located near Heutsz crater which was the site of the last eruption in 1839. [link to www.volcanolive.com]

Yes, this is also very interesting region. Add to it continuation of Campi Flegrei to south and you found there no less, and possible even more dangerous Empedocle volcanowith also clear signs of awakening

[link to en.wikipedia.org] Empedocles is a large underwater volcano located 40 km off the southern coast of Sicily named after the Greek philosopher Empedocles who believed that everything on Earth was made up of the four elements.According to Giovanni Lanzafame, of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, the volcanic structure is around 400 meters high, with a base 30 km long and 25 km wide.

From 17 to 21 July of the previous (now past) year INGV made with a high resolution geophysical survey of the volcano with the scientific ship Astrea, which in particular has allowed him to establish the presence of monogenic nine craters on top of one of which is the island Ferdinandea [link to upload.wikimedia.org]

notice the BOTTOM PEAKS of the red line is just over 20 at the start, and is now up over the 60-75 mark, pushing towards the 100 mark?

the other two frequencies have increased too. This is definitely ramping up, slowly, very slowly. whether that's a good thing, or a bad thing, we'll see.

i know the charts all look the same, but look at the increase in the nm/s figure on the left of the chart

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31507911

thanks, great post

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31614124

np

don't forget, open a katla file on your pc, and save any charts that interest you in there, with dates. you pick up on things long before anyone else that way.

i'm watching this like a hawk, as you can probably guess.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31507911

yeh, me too,as can (understandably given our situation here like). wish i could study it more etc as you say, but access to computers/time is very limited hence greatly appreciate yours and everyones posts, info and/or thoughts/senserespect and regards

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31681277

I'm join ! I think that the main events there could begin with the start of the melt season in Greenland and Iceland. How they will be serious strongly depends on could be compensated for the huge last year loss of ice during winter , or the melt season will begin with a clearly lower level than last year and the loss of volume - weight will only grow more and more.However, all could begin also earlier - large positive temperature anomalies in the Canadian Arctic yet continues, and in Iceland unusually warm weather... [link to en.vedur.is]